An 80 Year Old Mystery

I was working in the yard Friday morning, and snapped this photo of a float plane passing over, heading north. Figuring the pilot might be heading home to the Tavares Seaplane Base Marina, I checked the plane's "N" number with the FAA later that day. To my surprise, the plane is registered to a guy that lives on Highway U.S. 92, south of Fayetteville, Georgia (Fayetteville is just south of Atlanta). The second surprise was the supposed make, model and age of the plane: a Great Lakes 2T-1A Sportster, built in 1930 - 80 years ago (identical to the plane in a museum in the bottom photo). Digging a little further, I discovered that an owner can retain a number off an old plane for future use - mystery solved.

That's our Fayetteville visitor's property in the second and third photos - you can see his grass runway and probable hanger behind his house. Grass too tall?....just land across the highway on the Lake Horton Reservoir! =:o)

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Brownbird - landed here a while back - January 30th

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P.S. - The plane wasn't flying as low as implied in the picture above - I enlarged and cropped the photo before posting....